1. Please take a map of China off the back shelf
Pick 5 DIFFERENT map colors from the box on the back shelf

2. Ancient Chinese Territories
The Ming, Tang, Qin, Han, and Zhou Dynasties

3. Directions For this assignment you will need to collect:
A black map pencil
5 different colored map pencils
A focused mindset
An attitude of wanting to learn

4. Zhou Dynasty BC

5. Qin Dynasty BC

6. Han Dynasty 206 BC-220 AD

7. Tang Dynasty AD

8. Ming Dynasty

9. Facts you need to know
Han Dynasty– centralized government, complex bureaucracy, civil service jobs, promotion of Confucianism, invention of paper
Qin Dynasty– ruled by Shi Huangdi, who uses Legalist ideas to unify China through autocracy
Zhou Dynasty– Mandate of Heaven justifies royal authority and establishes dynastic cycles; nobles rule through feudalism